Date of Award

1-1-2000

Thesis Type

Masters

Document Type

Thesis

Divisions

Faculty of Languages and Linguistics

Department

-

Institution

Universiti Malaya

Abstract

This descriptive comparative study is to find out the similarities and differences in the use of reduplication forms in KD and KBBI. The intertext approach in this study chooses KD and KBBJ as they are regarded as the most authoritative and renowned monolingual dictionaries which becomes a main source of references for vocabulary and linguistic inputs. This study is focused on two major aspects, namely the entry status and the meaning description. The entry status deals with the status of the reduplication forms in the dictionary either as a lemma, sublemma, precategories form. phrase, variant, polysemy, or cross-reference. This also includes the parallel and non parallel forms which occurs in the headword and their derived forms, and loosely interpretation about the reduplication forms in the entry which is treated as a compound words. The meaning description deals with the semantic aspect of the reduplication forms to show whether they bear the lexical meanings or grammatical meanings. The meaning description reveals certain unique senses, particularly certain reduplication forms which are associated and correlated in meanings that are different from the corpus. Based on various linguistic theories and corpus sources, this study tries to highlight certain issues that create some of the irregularities and dissimilarities encompassing the entry status and meaning description. Hence, certain suggestions have been put forward so as to give some important and valuable inputs to the development of BM/BI lexicographic world, and at the same time to strengthen the language codification, particularly in elevating BM/Bl monolingual dictionaries to the world ~lass.

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Additional Information

Dissertation (M.A) -- Faculty of Languages and Linguistics, Universiti Malaya, 2000

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